Eight months after winning the Dakar Classic, Carlos Santaolalla and Jan Rosa’s Toyota Land Cruiser HDJ80 added another vintage rally raid trophy in Morocco when they won the RallyClassics Africa.
With a victory at the Baja TT Sharish Gin, João Ferreira bolstered his edge over Fernando Miguel Barreiros and João Dias in the FIA European Baja Cup with one race to go while passing Dias for the Portuguese Cross-Country Championship lead.
Oriol Vidal’s quest to win the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship Challenger co-drivers’ title as Rokas Baciuška’s navigator has come to an abrupt end.
Before heading to Morocco to close out the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, Tosha Schareina and Honda locked up the FIM E-Xplorer World Cup in Switzerland in their début season.
Alongside the returning Rallye Breslau and Fenix Rally, RBI Sport will host The ROCK Trophy and Baja Europe in 2025. The ROCK is an Extreme category race in Romania, while Baja Europe will be for Cross-Country classes in Poland.
Reigning Baja 1000 winner Carter Klein, one of the current SCORE Pro Moto Unlimited points leaders and the younger brother of Mason Klein, plans to race the Rallye du Maroc in October.
FIM Trial and Enduro star Sandra Gómez has signed with Fantic Rally Team, and will run the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally on a Fantic XEF 450 Rally.
With severe and deadly flooding in Central Europe and their native Czech Republic, Tomáš Vrátný and the new Tatra FF7 truck will not race in Morocco. Fesh Fesh will still be at the rally to support their bike rider Adam Peschel.
Saood Variawa has been sidelined for the World Rally-Raid Championship’s season finale due to a concussion he sustained during testing for the Phakisa 400.
Fidel Castillo Ruiz’s 2024 FIA European Baja Cup hopes are basically over as he will skip the Baja TT Sharish Gin due to the broken collarbone he sustained in Hungary, though he expects to be in the car again soon.
After racing a Mini at this year’s Dakar Rally, Pau Navarro will pilot a Ford Ranger T1+ from Past-Racing at the 2025 edition as well as next month’s Rallye du Maroc.
Secção de Motorismo had been receiving reports from landowners about drivers cutting their fences and knocking down gates while illegally doing course reconnaissance for the FIA European Baja Cup’s penultimate round.
Portuguese Cross-Country Champion Gonçalo Guerreiro will trade in his Polaris RZR Pro R for a Taurus T3 Max prepared by BBR Motorsport at the Baja Morocco, which will be his first desert rally.
Amidst historic flooding that has resulted in multiple deaths, the Baja Morocco later this month will go on as planned, though organisers expect tweaks to the route to accommodate.
After five years with Praga, Aleš Loprais will race an IVECO PowerStar at the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally as part of a new alliance with Team de Rooy.
It might not have been winning in his first try like when he was a co-driver, but the final Dakar Rally Quad winner and World Rally-Raid Champion looked comfortable in his first time driving a side-by-side.
An off-road buggy built by Dakar Rally winner Sergei Kariakin and his SNAG Racing team is now set to be transferred to the Sverdlovsk regional government before being shipped off to Ukraine.
